Wattpad Paid Stories is now accepting new members.
- Your story must be finished, whether on Wattpad, as a draft on Wattpad, or in a manuscript.
- Except for Fanfiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Classics, and Random, stories can be of any genre.
How can you join Wattpad’s STAR programme?
You must be thoughtfully involved with the Wattpad community and show promising talent in your frequently updated work to be considered for the Wattpad Stars program.
To be considered an active and engaged Wattpad writer, your profile must complete the following program criteria:
- You must have at least one (1) completed narrative story with at least fifty thousand (50,000) words.
- Within the recent three (3) months, you must have revised/modified/added a new part to an existing narrative.
**Each writer is limited to one story/application. Please keep in mind that this is not an official application. By completing this form, you are only expressing your interest in Wattpad Stars and assisting us in building a database of writers who would be a good fit for the program. While we appreciate your interest in the program, we will only contact those writers who are chosen.
If we think you’re cut out for the Stars, we’ll send you an invite from HQ!
Are Wattpad writers paid in 2021?
Wattpad Futures is a simple approach for writers to enhance their earning potential, according to Wattpad, an online community for readers and writers. Interested writers can boost their income with little work through the Wattpad Futures program. By adding adverts between chapters of their Wattpad tale, the software allows writers to earn money. The writer earns money every time a reader reads an advertisement.
According to Wattpad, the initiative also allows advertisers to interact with millions of engaged, mobile-first millennials and generation Z in the worldwide Wattpad community by leveraging the impact and reach of storytellers. In-story ads are deliberately placed in chapter breaks of some of the platform’s most popular tales to maximize reader engagement while also meeting advertisers’ brand objectives of views, clicks, recognition, and favorability.
Wattpad invites all levels of authors to contribute original work that inspires and entertains the Wattpad community of over 45 million users. Wattpad Futures improves on the existing tools, initiatives, and innovative revenue channels it’s established for online writers like you.
How much do Wattpad authors make?
Wattpad, a story-sharing platform, has introduced a new initiative aimed at helping writers make money through advertising. According to Wattpad, a test run has already resulted in authors earning $1,000 per month, with some earning nearly $2,000 per month.
How many views on Wattpad do you need to get paid?
The beautiful thing about the Paid Stories Program is that you don’t have to have a well-known tale to participate. To be considered for the program, it does not need to have 230K readers or 110K likes. The site’s seasoned and professional team considers all tales equally and fairly.
How can you get free access to paid Wattpad stories?
A: By watching video advertisements, you can earn Coins. Visit the Earn tab in the Coin shop to earn Coins.
To open your wallet, tap the wallet icon on your profile. You can buy Coin packs from the Coin Shop, or you can view movies and earn Coins to access Paid Stories by tapping the Earn tab. Your wallet balance will be updated when you earn Coins, and you can use Coins to unlock Paid Stories anywhere you use Wattpad.
You can watch up to three advertisements every day to earn points toward unlocking special content on the platform.
When you enable Paid Stories, you are assisting writers in getting paid for their work.
Are Wattpad’s stars compensated?
Wattpad writers who participated in the program are continuing writing fantastic stories and interacting with readers all around the world. We thank everyone who took part in the program for their time and effort. For the duration of their stay in the program, all Futures writers will get a final payout in the entire amount of their earnings. There will be no minimum earnings requirement to be eligible for this final payment: any sum a writer has ever earned will be paid in full. Some writers will be moved to the Wattpad Stars Program, while others will be moved to Paid Stories. We’re also hosting a Studios Pitch competition for Futures writers only. We’ll have more information about this contest soon.
After that, who wrote the fanfiction?
Do you know any ardent fans of young adult romance (or are you one yourself)? Then you’ve probably heard them speak about one of the most eagerly anticipated romance films of 2019, After, which is set to hit theaters globally on April 12th.
The obsession behind the romantic story and film has gotten a lot of press throughout the world. The film is based on Anna Todd’s novel, which became a viral hit in every sense of the word when it was released, with fans sending Todd photographs of the main characters, creating book-themed songs on Soundcloud, and roleplaying characters on Twitter. More than 300 people camped out in the cold for the night to ensure their spot in line for a recent book signing in New York with Todd and movie cast members Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin. The After movie trailer has been viewed over 19 million times as of today.
Anna Todd grew raised in Ohio and began writing the first book in the After series while she was 24 years old and living as an army wife at Fort Hood, Texas.
She composed the story on her iPhone and uploaded it chapter by chapter to Wattpad, where it was read 1 billion times by 2014! The plot revolves around Tessa (Langford), an innocent bookworm, and her torturous romance with Hardin (Tiffin), a fascinating, brooding rebel who makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life. Todd would change the story’s plot based on reader feedback, making her a true crowd-sourced sensation.
Who are the most popular Wattpad authors?
Anna Todd, a Texas native, is possibly the most well-known Wattpad success story. Her fan fiction about One Direction attending university went viral, and she became famous. It topped the New York Times bestseller list with over 1.5 billion copies sold, was translated into over 30 languages, and was even optioned by Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation.
50000 words equals how many pages?
It’s NaNoWriMo day 5, and I’ve written exactly ZERO WORDS. No, no, no. This month, I won’t have time to write a novel, which should come as a comfort to my clients, to whom I owe a lot of money. BUT, just because I’m not doing it doesn’t mean I can’t provide you with material that will help you do it, or those of you who may want to create a longer piece of fiction or non-fiction in the future.
Today, every word matters! We discussed fundamental word count ranges for many genres a long time ago. Today, we’ll discuss why NaNoWriMo’s objective is (probably) 50,000 words.
When speaking with folks in the publishing industry, you quickly discover that we always speak in terms of word count rather than page number. When people ask how many pages it should have, I have no idea. What is the size of the book? What about the font? What about the margins? Do you have a lot of graphs or pictures? As we all found when we first started typing papers in school, you can make any page you want.
A conventional written manuscript page (i.e., what you type before it becomes a book page) with 12pt font and one inch margins is around 300 words. A manuscript of 50,000 words is approximately 165 pages long. For a novel, that feels way too short to me, but YMMV. If you’re writing a full-length novel for adults, your 50k word novel will probably not be ready for primetime, but I think how close or far you get to 50k in the writing tells you a lot about the tale and what you have or need. I’ll get to that in a minute.
We need to look at the economics of books to figure out how we got to 50k words. You’ll notice that the prices of books are very consistent across the board. It costs around $25 for an adult hardcover paperback, give or take a nickel. It costs around $16-17 for an adult paperback. Hardcover YA books cost around $18. Illustrated books come in a wide range of prices, but you’ll find a lot in the $15-20 area. Other types of children’s books are priced similarly.
You may get one adult hardcover with 265 pages for $24.95 and another adult hardcover with 465 pages for $26.95. Is it true that 200 pages of paper will set you back another $2? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no The more materials that go into making a book, including illustrations, color printing, special effects, and cover features, the higher the price. However, the amount of pages in a book does not make it much more or less expensive to produce.
Furthermore, the buyer is extremely price conscious. Nobody wants to spend $35 on an adult novel. I mean, seriously. If your 500,000-word epic would cost $35 to produce in the real world, it’s not going to happen. (And don’t even bring up Game of Thrones.) If your book sells that many copies, you’ve generated enough money for the publisher to fudge the production expenses for everyone. Also, even in special, beautiful editions, those books are not $35.) On the other hand, if your 30k novel is 116 pages in book form and still costs the publisher close to the same amount to produce, the consumer will not pay $19 for it, and the publisher will not charge $19. It will feel thin, even in hardcover, and the consumer will perceive it as having less value than a longer novel. (Please, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, A thin novel is one of my favorite types of books. But I’m referring to value perception rather than actual value. This is why we buy the stupid box of crackers that screams 20% MORE, even though we only get around 15 extra crackers. Retailers are smarter than we are.)
You would imagine that a publisher could simply turn my little novel into a paperback. This is possible! Hardcovers, on the other hand, provide the biggest profit margins for a publisher. That’s why they’re the first to appear. That’s why some of the most popular books spend two years in hardcover before being released in paperback. (A book spends an average of a year in hardcover.) You may conceive of this as publishers taking advantage of the unsuspecting reader, but those are the same people who want to pay you a huge, fat advance, so…
Back to the 50k-word mark. In terms of what the public wants, how much it costs to write a book, and how a story is told, there’s probably nothing magical about that number. It most likely came up as a result of editors speaking with typesetters about books that were either too lengthy or too short, and the figures were averaged out. It became a sort of yardstick. If there’s a publishing historian out there who knows more about this than I do, please contact me through my DMs; I’d love to talk to you. But, in my opinion, if you’re writing a novel and get well above 50k words, you’ve probably got enough going on in your bookstakes, action, dialog, plot, and characters. If you’re having trouble getting to 50k or just scraping by, you may need to make some adjustments. Perhaps there isn’t enough of a plot. Perhaps your stakes aren’t high enough to warrant additional action. Perhaps your characters should communicate more with one another. (You may be a minimalist, which is admirable, but in my experience, it means you need more to your work’s story than just more words.)
Again, the most of this information applies to adult (and, to be honest, YA) hardcover novels. If you’re writing nonfiction, you have more leeway in terms of how many words comprise a book, but less leeway in terms of how much people are ready to spend for a thick or thin book. Have you ever noticed that certain celebrity books have large fonts, small margins, or a lot of vacant pages between chapters? That’s because the text was short, and the publisher still needs readers to believe the hardcover is “worth” $25. I’m sure you never imagined you’d need to know so much about consumer price sensitivity to write a bookand I’m sure there’s still a lot I don’t knowbut here we are. The fact that publishing is a business is another another reminder.
Apart from the need for editing and perspective, these are all reasons why your NaNo novel will not be ready to publish on December 1st. These are even more reasons why you should always consider the reader when writing. Consider how you purchase books. Regardless of the literary worth of what’s within, I’m sure you’ve put down a thinner book because it didn’t feel like a smart investment. Even if you didn’t make that decision consciously, you probably felt some sort of way about it. Again, this is why 20 percent MORE banners on grocery store boxes entice us in.
Word count is important not only because agents and editors like to make writers jump through hoops, but also because it affects the entire process of writing to selling a book.
Friends, whether you accomplish 50k this month or not, have a great month of writing.